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At a glanceExpert's Rating ProsSmall and easily transportableBoth USB-A and USB-C ports supportedUp to 4TB of capacityConsAwkward port coverFaster Gen 2×2 drives aroundOur VerdictThe construction of the EX100U isn’t as robust as we’ve seen from other brands, but the functionality inside is excellent. For the best performance, you need a USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 port, but even with a standard Gen 2 USB port it’s reasonably quick. Best Prices Today: Corsair EX100U…

At the end of 2021 Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, the first 5nm chipset for Windows on ARM devices. It used ARM-designed cores, so its performance is not too different from its siblings that are used for Android. But soon Qualcomm’s acquisition of Nuvia will pay off with the 8cx Gen 4. As previous rumors reported, the company is working on a 12 core chip. According to Kuba Wojciechowski, these will be divided into 8 performance (~3.4GHz) and 4 efficiency (~2.5GHz) cores. They are based on Nuvia’s Phoenix…

Dell has announced a new display that could take on Apple's Pro Display XDR and Studio Display.Today at CES 2023, Dell announced the Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor. In a press release (opens in new tab), the company said that the display is the "world’s first 6K-resolution monitor with IPS Black panel technology." Dell says that the display technology provides higher contrast and deeper blacks and features "exceptional details, sharpness, and color accuracy."You can check out an introduction video of the new monitor on…

A step-by-step guide on building a fully automated process to regularly update a BigQuery tableShane Aldendorff on UnsplashLately, the Roquette Data & Advanced Analytics team has been investigating how Analytical data warehouses such as BigQuery or Snowflake could improve the access to data of our end-users.Such data warehouses offer a global platform to easily ingest, process, and serve structured data to business users or solutions.In this article, I’d like to explain how we developed a simple process to ingest…

Twitter has once again rushed to undo an impulsive new policy less than a day after introducing it. This week’s victim: Elon Musk’s sudden decision to ban external links to other social media sites. For anyone still catching up, Twitter on Sunday published a since-deleted blog post saying it would no longer allow the, “free promotion of certain social media platforms,” on its site. That ban covered accounts created for the sole creation of advertising but also, crucially, would have applied to content linking out to…

iPadOS 16.2 is finally here and there is a lot coming with it.Today, Apple officially rolled out iPadOS 16.2 to all users with a compatible iPad. The update brings a ton of new features, bug fixes, and performance updates to the iPad lineup, but there are certainly some key features that stand out, set to make the best iPads even better.Among the updates for this software release, Apple included a number of new features for the iPad including the new Freeform app, its new Apple Music Sing feature, support for Advanced…

iPadOS 16 launched a little later this year than its predecessors, and a few key features weren’t quite ready. With iPadOS 16.2, which just arrived this afternoon, I think Apple has caught up with what it planned. There are two major new features on board here. First, Stage Manager multitasking now works across an external display, provided you’re using an iPad with an M1 or M2 chip inside. Second, the collaborative brainstorming and productivity app Freeform is now available on the iPad (and on the iPhone and Mac, as…

Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council via email and less than an hour before its members' Zoom meeting with the company's executives, according to The Washington Post and NPR. The council was reportedly supposed to discuss recent developments and changes on the website under Elon Musk, but the email said that the members' help is no longer needed. Its members were apparently informed that Twitter is "reevaluating how best to bring external insights" and that the council is no longer "the best structure to do…

Does your iPhone or iPad not have enough storage for you? Well, thankfully, despite the proprietary Lightning connector on iPhones and most iPads, you can still access files stored on an external drive. If you have large files you don't need on a day-to-day basis or just want to offload a bunch of pictures and videos and free up space, you can plug an external hard drive in and send those files across. Apple made this possible with the release of iOS 13 in 2019, adding native support for external storage devices…

Elon Musk is giving outside writers unprecedented access to internal Twitter information, instructing the current head of trust and safety to provide screenshots of users' accounts.Screenshots showing internal systems restricted to a relatively small number of people in charge of moderating content were shared by journalist Bari Weiss on Thursday. The images carry a watermark — a translucent label — indicating they were taken from the employee view of Twitter's trust and safety head, Ella Irwin.The watermarked…